About Christopher
Christopher Massey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people cope with anxiety, stress, and life changes. He draws on several therapy styles to suit each person’s needs and focuses on real skills that make daily life easier. He commonly helps people facing depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, and addiction.
He also supports those dealing with sleep and eating concerns, low self-esteem, career stress, and ADHD.
Background and approach
Phobias are listed among his areas of focus when specific fears get in the way of everyday functioning. His way of working is warm and interactive. He treats people with respect and avoids stigmatizing labels.
Sessions are collaborative: the client’s goals come first and shape a personalized plan. Christopher mixes cognitive-behavioral techniques with client-centered and mindfulness approaches. This means he will teach clear coping skills, help you notice and shift unhelpful thinking, and use present-moment practices to reduce reactivity.
He also attends to attachment patterns that affect relationships and trust. With five years of clinical experience in Missouri, he has worked with people who’ve experienced trauma, abuse, neglect, and complex life stressors. He aims to build practical strategies for coping while supporting gradual change and resilience.
To begin, he encourages a simple first step toward support and recovery. He focuses on small, manageable changes so progress feels achievable and grounded in everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Christopher often blends cognitive-behavioral therapy and client-centered work when meeting online. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and it is useful for anxiety, depression, phobias, and stress. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship so clients can set their own goals and feel heard.He also uses mindfulness techniques to help people stay present and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness exercises can be short practices for grounding during a session or tools to use between meetings. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process; he will work with each person to decide what fits their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let therapists see nonverbal cues and run practical skill demonstrations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging provide brief check-ins and ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to get help around family, work, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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